Lepidochrysops hypopolia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Genus
- Lepidochrysops
- Species
- Lepidochrysops hypopolia
- Scientific Name
- Lepidochrysops hypopolia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Lepidochrysops hypopolia
Lepidochrysops hypopolia, the Morant's blue (Afrikaans: Morant-bloutjie), is an extinct species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was endemic to South Africa. The species is only known from two complete male specimens, and one partial male specimen (a leg). The species is named after Walter Morant, who caught the two complete male specimens.
The complete specimens were both caught in Blue Bank, near Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal on 21 September 1870 by Morant. The partial specimen was discovered by Thomas Ayres near Potchefstroom, North West Province (South Africa) in 1879.
This species was listed as extinct in S. F. Henning & G. A. Henning (1989) and G. A. Henning and S. F. Henning (1992b).
Morant's complete specimens are on display at Natural History Museum, London. Ayres' partial specimen is on display in the South African Museum, Cape Town.
...Lepidochrysops hypopolia in languages:
- English
- Morant's Blue
Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Lepidochrysops abyssiniensis
- Lepidochrysops arabicus
- Lepidochrysops asteris
- Lepidochrysops australis
- Lepidochrysops bacchus
- Lepidochrysops badhami
- Lepidochrysops balli
- Lepidochrysops barnesi
- Lepidochrysops braueri
- Lepidochrysops budama
- Lepidochrysops carsoni
- Lepidochrysops chittyi
- Lepidochrysops chloauges
- Lepidochrysops coxii
- Lepidochrysops delicata
- Lepidochrysops dukei
- Lepidochrysops dunni
- Lepidochrysops elgonae
- Lepidochrysops flavisquamosa
- Lepidochrysops fulvescens
- Lepidochrysops glauca
- Lepidochrysops grahami
- Lepidochrysops gydoae
- Lepidochrysops hawkeri
- Lepidochrysops hypopolia
- Lepidochrysops ignota
- Lepidochrysops inyangae
- Lepidochrysops irvingi
- Lepidochrysops jacksoni
- Lepidochrysops jamesi
- Lepidochrysops jefferyi
- Lepidochrysops kennethi
- Lepidochrysops ketsi
- Lepidochrysops kilimanjarensis
- Lepidochrysops kitale
- Lepidochrysops koaena
- Lepidochrysops kocak
- Lepidochrysops labwor
- Lepidochrysops lerothodi
- Lepidochrysops letsea
- Lepidochrysops littoralis
- Lepidochrysops loewensteini
- Lepidochrysops longifalces
- Lepidochrysops lotana
- Lepidochrysops mashuna
- Lepidochrysops mcgregori
- Lepidochrysops methymna
- Lepidochrysops michellae
- Lepidochrysops mpanda
- Lepidochrysops nacrescens
- Lepidochrysops oosthuizeni
- Lepidochrysops oreas
- Lepidochrysops ortygia
- Lepidochrysops outeniqua
- Lepidochrysops patricia
- Lepidochrysops peculiaris
- Lepidochrysops penningtoni
- Lepidochrysops pephredo
- Lepidochrysops pittawayi
- Lepidochrysops plebeia
- Lepidochrysops poseidon
- Lepidochrysops praeterita
- Lepidochrysops pringlei
- Lepidochrysops procera
- Lepidochrysops puncticilia
- Lepidochrysops quickelbergei
- Lepidochrysops reichenowi
- Lepidochrysops rhodesensae
- Lepidochrysops robertsoni
- Lepidochrysops rossouwi
- Lepidochrysops ruthica
- Lepidochrysops solwezii
- Lepidochrysops southeyae
- Lepidochrysops swanepoeli
- Lepidochrysops swartbergensis
- Lepidochrysops tantalus
- Lepidochrysops titei
- Lepidochrysops trimeni
- Lepidochrysops vansoni
- Lepidochrysops variabilis
- Lepidochrysops vera
- Lepidochrysops victori
- Lepidochrysops victoriae
- Lepidochrysops violetta
- Lepidochrysops wykehami